Power Players

Georgia Natural Resources Foundation Executive Director Ben Stowers heads a group that seeks to raise money to bolster DNR programs endangered by shrinking budgets.

The newly rebooted Center for Health Transformation is nonprofit and nonpartisan. WellStar CEO Reynold Jennings wants to make it a learning lab for real solutions.

Georgia Lottery Corporation President and CEO Debbie Alford says an educated citizenry is essential to Georgia’s long-term global competitive position.

The Georgia Review is part of the literary magazine world, says its editor Stephen Corey. The primary commitment is publishing new work that is special, unusual and important.

Former Sen. Sam Nunn is working to help solve the fiscal and economic challenges he sees as security and foreign policy problems. When he speaks, people listen.

Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin is now CEO of Purpose Built Communities, working to break the cycle of poverty through education, housing and wellness.

Future Products Corporation’s Patti Gilmer brought her company’s manufacturing jobs back home from China.

Marietta attorney Hap Smith is fighting the system he believes hinders good care for the elderly, and he may just have found a direction for the next phase of his career.

Sea Island President Scott Steilen is courting a new generation of visitors from the Southeast.

Polk County’s Larry Kuglar spent his career as a community banker and community advocate.